That is my answer to the question that concludes the most recent post from Riverbend of Baghdad Burning, (which, either ironically or appropriately, follows her previous post about the decision to execute Saddam Hussein) in which she again tells us what it is really like:

"Just because Americans die in smaller numbers, it doesn't make them more significant, does it?"

Her post begins with:

End of Another Year...

You know your country is in trouble when:

1. The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.
2. Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.
3. The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.
4. The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.
5. An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.
6. Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.
7. For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.
8. Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.
9. People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.

...and then the post begins to break your heart. Again. And again.

Please, please, let the new congress, the ISG, Laura, Barney, any one with influence, break through Bush's hubristic bubble!